Flora of North America species comparison

erect, unbranched or branched distally.

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

cauline;

stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 5–16 mm;

petiole 3–6 cm;

leaflets 7–12, blades 30–80 × 4–8 mm, adaxial surface sparsely pubescent.

basal and cauline;

stipules well developed;

petiole 1.5–4.5 cm;

leaflets 5–7, blades 7–22 × 3–6 mm, adaxial surface softly villous.

4–22 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

well exserted, several–many-flowered, 3–7 cm;

flowers crowded, whorled proximally, becoming spirally arranged distally.

3–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 5–9 mm.

2–5.5 cm;

bracts persistent, 5–7 mm.

2–6 mm.

2–4 mm.

13–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 7–11 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 6–10 mm;

corolla light blue to purple, banner patch yellowish to white, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous, banner ovate, wings wide, covering keel tip.

8–10 mm;

calyx 5–8 mm, lobes unequal, adaxial lobe less than 1/2 as long as abaxial;

corolla blue or whitish and blue-tipped, keel glabrous.

3–4 cm, silky.

not obviously undulate, 1–1.3 cm, softly villous-pilose.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent or deciduous, disclike, sessile, leaving a circular scar.

3–7, beige, speckled brown, 4–6 mm.

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